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Welcome to July's Dakka (unofficial) Monthly Painting Challenge. For those who aren't familliar, this is a no-prize-related challenge open to any and all painters and hobbyists. Anyone can enter, from a newcomer to the hobby with your first box of minis to a multiple-time Golden Demon champion, and the winner each month will be decided by community poll, not just on the paintwork but on the effort, creativity and awesomeness of the finished piece!


For this month, the theme is: Sneaky

For example, this includes:
Any kind of model described in its rules or background as stealthy, sneaky or subtle
Any model with weapons or equipment suited to stealth, such as a camouflage cloak, knife or sniper rifle ect.
Any model in a crouchinh/crawling pose


Just a heads up, the rules for Proof Pictures have been updated/clarified to prevent confusion. See below for details.


How To Enter
- You may enter up to 5 MODELS as a SINGLE ENTRY, and are permitted one entry per member per month. If you enter multiple models, they should ideally be related in some way, such as part of the same squad, unit or scene if you are doing a diorama
- You MUST post a 'proof' picture of your entry in the thread of the state it was in before you started working on it; this must be either unassembled, unpainted, primed or baedcoated a single colour. Entries that do not submit a valid Proof Picture will not be elligible for voting.
- After this, you may post WIP pictures in this thread and your own if you wish, and on completing the entry, you may post up to 5 final pictures IN THIS THREAD that will then be used for voting.


So What Do I Win?
- Points... and points mean... bragging rights for the next month Following the vote, points will be awarded for the following:

1st Place: 10 points
2nd Place: 8 points
3rd Place: 5 points
Non-placing Entrants: 1 point

These points will be used to form a league table, which will be updated month on month as the results come in.


How Long Do I Have?
This challenge begins Wednesday 1st July and will end at midnight GMT on the 31st July. After this, I shall compile the finished entries into a new thread, and voting will run for 5 days.


List of entrants:

Aldo: FINISHED


Eggs:


Kustomer D: FINISHED



Nevelon: FINISHED


SJM


Inspector #264: FINISHED


ZergSmasher: FINISHED


Januine: FINISHED


Inflatable Love Badger: FINISHED


Ustrello: FINISHED


40kpirate: FINISHED


Buttery Commissar


SlavetoDorkness:



TP^DC Deputy Manager: FINISHED


AUGmaniac: FINISHED


Rollawaythestone: FINISHED


Midget Gems: FINISHED


Nudibranch


commissarbob


HairySticks


Ratius: FINISHED


Paradigm: FINISHED


Bantha_beast: FINISHED


Arclaw: FINISHED


kb_lock


Dcannon4life


LordRahl: FINISHED


Talys: FINISHED


Farseer Anath'lan: FINISHED
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Polonius: FINISHED


Zoat: FINISHED


Timtheheirodule: FINISHED


Grimdork: FINISHED


Ezra Tyrius: FINISHED

Okay, will I manage to finish this time, to a standard I like, and without forgetting some small but essential thing? personally, I doubt it

Italian Paratroopers, by Warlord Games, from left to right: Beretta SMG, Breda LMG, Loader, M38 Carbine, Beretta SMG
PROOF



Not that I know anything about WWII (problems of being a Spaniard, as we didn't enter WWII in our history classes we get double ration of Civil War misery and Post-War misery) but those guys sure look sweet, and they will be wearing camo so I'd say they fit the contest, but if they don't I also have a Sniper Team that will.

Something a little different for me this month. I'm running a narrative X-wing campaign, and I need a couple of sneaky models for scenarios.

For the Imperial's, Darth Maul's Sith Infiltrator. The Scimitar. It's fitted with a cloaking device, a la the Phantom.
(Actually a Revel pocketkit model at the same scale as X-wing)

Proof pics -



The rebels, to give them a fighting chance, will be getting a stealth-X reconnaissance ship. This will just be a repaint of a standard X-wing.

Proof pic -



Looking forward to getting started.

Count me in, got a Wolfen desert sheikh type figure that I reckon fits the bill quite well. Been meaning to paint him for a good while.

Wonder if we're going to see any purple Orks?

Probably going to do a Mandrake/5 Mandrakes or my Callidus from Execution Force for this one.

I´m in!

Got a very sneaky IG and some chaos cultists, who don´t expect him around.
If that´s not stealthy enough, I don´t know

K D

Assuming I get the time to straighten out the guns, and get them primed, and then painted, some or all of these guys are going to be my entry for this month. If the weather doesn’t line up with my desire to break out the rattle can and prime, I might fall back to an old metal SM scout sarge that’s already in the paint queue. But frankly, I need to get more Eldar finished, so would like to bang out the squad of pointy eared sneaks.

Well, I was going to have a month off, but what the hell.

I'll enter something small, side project little INQ28 mutant sniper thing. sorry for the crappy pic

I'm in. Not decided on mini yet. Will post soon

Would a Deathwatch Captain count? He won't be particularly blinged out, but will be in a running pose. AFAIK the Deathwatch's operations tend to involve being pretty stealthy.

If not I'll try to think of something else.

Deciding if I want to finish my Broodlord and a few Genestealers, or go with another Mawloc. Might go with the Genestealers cause they will be easier to finish.

 sockwithaticket wrote:
Would a Deathwatch Captain count? He won't be particularly blinged out, but will be in a running pose. AFAIK the Deathwatch's operations tend to involve being pretty stealthy.

If not I'll try to think of something else.

Certainly. Considering DW are basically SM black ops, he fits fine!

I would like to enter the challenge again please.

My proof:



Good old Advanced Space Crusade Scouts. They are the only models that I could find that fit the theme, but that is fine, as I like them.

I wonder if the folks who voted stealthy in, are going to take part? seems to be a tricky topic for quite a few.

I voted for old! Never mind. Hope it's the winner next month, as I feel a tribute to the Warhammer old world would be fitting. :/

@buttery - It is tough isn't it? I voted stealthy and have a safety plan of space marine scouts which I would love to do something cool with the snipers with Gilli (I think that's right) suits, but am wondering about finally starting to paint some Tau and some XV-25s so could do the normal red and black Farsight scheme I want. But as this is a challenge, try new techniques etc, I'm wondering about trying an effect I've seen involving a spreading camo shield effect. Hence my hesitancy to choose. I will research and decide over next few days.

On a side note to everyone, the 15th League of Extraordinary riveters has judge started here on Dakka. Brief is to make a terrain piece in the theme of Trapdoor. Come join in (maybe make something you can utilise for a future dio???)


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 Eggs wrote:
I voted for old! Never mind. Hope it's the winner next month, as I feel a tribute to the Warhammer old world would be fitting. :/

I agree, I'm painting up only 2nd edition Tyranids because I love the new stuff, but never paint my original minis. They would be feasible to field as a current force and I have bent slightly and bought two brood lords, but everything else is from back in the day

I'm in with my Dark Angels Sniper Scouts. Here's my proof:

Okay, the pic did not come out well, but all it needs to be is proof that the guys are unpainted, right?

And yes, I just got my Reclusiam Edition Dark Angels codex in the mail today (finally!) and I just had to get it in the shot somehow!

I didn't mean that as a complaint by any means, I was just curious! I voted for something else (can't remember what) because my only "stealthy" figures would be Gaunts Ghosts and I simply don't know if I have time to paint that command set in a month... Alongside the 75 other Tanith id feel obliged to do at the same time.
"My diorama base is made of stacked unpainted lead and the tears of fatigue."

I was starting to put together a load of bits to make a squad of the Tanith first and only before I entered Mays competition. Stealth seems like a good excuse to revisit them and get them all together.

I'm in Norway next week but will hopefully get a proof pick up before then

If you need any parts, I'm getting a spare set of the GW set (minus Gaunt) that I won't need, as part of a lot.
Should turn up next week.

Having remembered, I'm torn now between the wolfen and putting more effort into my IG army.

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
I didn't mean that as a complaint by any means, I was just curious! I voted for something else (can't remember what) because my only "stealthy" figures would be Gaunts Ghosts and I simply don't know if I have time to paint that command set in a month... Alongside the 75 other Tanith id feel obliged to do at the same time.
"My diorama base is made of stacked unpainted lead and the tears of fatigue."

Oh whoops did my tone seem defensive, wasn't meant to be. I was agreeing, stealth seemed like a good idea at the time to paint up some of what I've got in the cupboard, but now can't decide how to go about doing it

I'm in!!! Harlequins!!!! Sneaky psycho dancey nutjobs!!! They've been waiting since my then fiancée bought them for my last Valentine's Day!!!

I know it's only a small one, but will not have much time this month. So I will be doing a Yu Jing ninja, and hopefully making it a little more interesting than just painting it black!

Literally every one of these painting comps has been something I have in parts on my desk, and every time something has managed to completely derail me.

IS THIS THE ONE I FINALLY GET FINISHED? I am doing some urbancam ultramarine scouts in a land speeder storm - but I did just have a new box of awesome land on my desk thanks to BC, so will probably get side tracked again...

I have decided to enter Shadow Captain Korvydae. What else is stealthy compared to a raven guard? Let alone a raven guard captain!

I think you need to put a silencer on his hammer tho

 Inflatable love badger wrote:
I think you need to put a silencer on his hammer tho

The simpsons gun store gif springs to mind

Hello,

Would I be able to enter this model for this month's painting challenge?


I ask because I do not intend to prime and completely re-paint the model - and it has come base-coated in more than one colour.
I intend to repaint everything but the shirt and skin - because I do not have a skin-coloured paint as good as the paint on the model, and my painting skills aren't up to the task of re-painting the bat-symbol and eyes. However, I do intend to repaint the lower body, belt, and gloves, and wash and highlight everything.

Also, does anyone mind if I post step-by-step WIPs for advice as I paint? I feel like I've hit a block, and my painting isn't improving all that much - of course, it could just be a process that takes a few years, instead of a few months!

Yep to both! Go for it!

Thanks.